Now, even Russia's most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices

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One of the Russian government’s most elite hacking groups has adopted an attack, known as Clickfix, to compromise devices belonging to sensitive organizations in Ukraine, the latter country’s CERT center is warning. Clickfix has emerged as an effective attack technique that attackers, primarily financially motivated criminals, began …

Cloud CISO Perspectives: How AI leverages deep context as the defender’s advantage

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Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2026. Today, Francis deSouza, COO, Google Cloud and President, Security Products, explains the crucial role that deep context plays in creating an AI advantage for defenders. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to …

‘Keys to the kingdom’: hackers who gained access to heart of London transport network jailed

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Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 19, sentenced to five and a half years each for cyber-attack that cost Transport for London £39m The data of millions of commuters was stolen, Londoners were left out of pocket and 27,000 Transport for London staff were forced to reset their …

Australian patients’ medical records could be sold on dark web after clinics’ data breach

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‘Malicious actor’ obtains sensitive data including Medicare numbers, treatment details and pathology results in cyber-attack on Partnered Health Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australians’ medical records and patient information could be sold on the …

Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches

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Right on the heels of Microsoft releasing a record number of security patches, a researcher has published exploit code that can enable low-privilege Windows accounts to make sensitive changes to administrator accounts. The exploit, which multiple researchers say works, is sending Microsoft scrambling, yet again, to patch a zero-day …

We built a vulnerability vending machine: AI tokens in, zero-days out

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Intruder built an AI-powered "vulnerability vending machine" that combines code slicing with LLMs to automatically discover complex software vulnerabilities. The company explains how the system found and exploited a previously unknown WordPress plugin zero-day, with additional discoveries already under responsible disclosure. [...]

ICYMI: June 2026 @AWS Security

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Read all about the latest AWS security features, compliance updates, and hands-on resources in our new, monthly digest posts. You’ll find expert blog posts, new service capabilities, code samples, and workshops. AWS Security Blog posts This month’s AWS Security Blog posts covered identity and access management, threat …

Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

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An industry-wide standard Microsoft invented to protect Windows, and later Linux, devices from firmware infections has been trivial to bypass for 13 of its 14 years of existence. The discovery was made by researchers at security firm ESET after identifying 11 firmware images, at least one from 2013, that …

Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws

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Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided …

Security Hub adds AI workload protection and multicloud support for Microsoft Azure

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Security Hub is our foundation for full-stack enterprise security across clouds. It centralizes your security operations and turns raw signals into prioritized insights, so your team spends its time managing real risk instead of stitching tools together. Today that foundation grows in two directions our customers asked for most …

Authenticate legitimate AI agent traffic with AWS WAF Bot Control

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As AI agents and automated tools increasingly access web applications, distinguishing legitimate bot traffic from malicious attempts has become a critical security challenge. Traditional approaches such as IP-based filtering and reverse DNS lookups fail in multi-tenant systems (such as Amazon Bedrock AgentCore) where thousands of distinct workloads share the …

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